child services
Youth welfare bureau
Child services refers to government agencies responsible for protecting children from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
Also called child protective services or CPS.
Caseworkers investigate reports of mistreatment and may remove children from unsafe homes: Child services showed up after the teacher reported bruises.
The term often carries anxious connotations for parents, as involvement can lead to custody disputes or family separation.
- abuse preventionStopping mistreatment before occurs
- pediatric careMedical services for children
- parenting classesInstruction in raising children
- immunizationsInjections conferring disease resistance
- adoption agenciesOrganizations arranging child placements
special education · family therapy · social workers · home visit · vision care · permanency planning · mandatory reporting · welfare check · protective custody · speech therapy · legal guardianship · case management · background check · safe haven · school counseling · developmental screenings · risk assessment · juvenile justice
- public servicespolice, police department, police station, police stations, police patrols
- social servicessocial workers, social work, welfare office, case workers, job training
- child protectionsafeguarding, protection laws, mandatory reporting, abuse prevention, protective custody
- Aid OrganizationsRed Cross, ICRC, UNICEF, UNHCR, IRC
- child welfarefoster care, foster home, CPS, foster family, adoption agency
- government spendinggovernment spending, federal budget, expenditures, allocations, military spending
child servicesparental rights
Legal power over children
parental authority · family privacy · homeschooling · non-intervention · unschooling
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